Immigration Law Professionals
The Capitol Immigration Law Group PLLC is a boutique law firm based in Washington, DC specializing exclusively in U.S. immigration and nationality law. We serve corporate and individual clients throughout the U.S. and internationally. We are proud to be able to offer practical, prompt and professional immigration and employment compliance legal advice to our clients.
Because of our focus on business immigration law, we are able to handle competently all of our individual and corporate clients’ needs in this area. Our ability to provide quality and practical legal advice lies not only in our devotion and competency in immigration law, but also in our efforts to understand our clients’ business and to act as immigration-related business advisors.
We take great pride in the quality of our work, in our professionalism and in our expertise. We provide regular client updates on important developments in immigration and compliance law and are often invited speakers to relevant business community and other labor and immigration events.
We offer free and confidential initial evaluations and we offer competitive flat fee rates for our services. Our goal is to provide stability to our clients’ immigration and compliance needs by ensuring a combination of high level of service and predictable and transparent billing arrangements.
Our typical clients are small and mid-size companies doing business in a variety of sectors, non-profit organizations, universities and foreign investors. We consider our size an asset allowing us to provide loyal, intimate and personal legal services. In addition to corporate clients, we also represent foreign nationals from over 40 countries on individual employment-related immigration matters.
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We Are Growing!
We are pleased to announce the relocation and expansion of our law firm – Capitol Immigration Law Group (“CILG”) now resides at “Bethesda Towers” at 4340 East-West Highway, Suite 250, Bethesda, MD 20814. Bethesda is located just northwest of Washington, DC and is a home to a number of corporate and government headquarters. Our Washington DC office continues to serve and meet with our clients.
At Capitol Immigration Law Group, we believe that successfully addressing client needs requires more than just knowledge of the immigration law and a mastery of the multitude of rules and regulations that impact our clients’ interests. […]
USCIS Issues Numerous RFEs on Pending I-485 Applications
Many of our clients and readers are already aware of the move by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) to issue what are hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of very similar, if not identical, requests for evidence (“RFE”) on pending employment-based primary and derivative Form I-485, Application to Adjust Status. Most of the RFEs were issued and dated June 13th or June 14th and hardcopies are starting to be delivered to individual applicants and to their attorneys. Our office has also started receiving such documents and we have been receiving numerous inquiries with respect to this massive RFE event.
Identical I-485 […]
When is the Interview Waived for Family-based I-485 Adjustment of Status Applications?
Many of our clients and readers (especially those who have family-based immigrant visa cases) are aware that a family-based Form I-485, Application to Adjust Status, required an interview to be conducted at a local (to the applicant) service center. The requirement for these interviews is set under 8 CFR §245.6 which also indicates that interviews may be waived in certain cases. We would like to provide description of the situations where an interview may be waived.
Instances Where Interview Can be Waived
It is important to note that USCIS has authority to waive an interview if the […]
Visa Bulletin Expectations and Predictions for the Remainder of the Fiscal Year – EB-2 India Forward Movement Expected
After the July 2013 Visa Bulletin was issued a few days ago, many of our clients and readers are anxious to get a sense of what we should expect for the remainder of the 2013 Fiscal Year (ends on September 30, 2013). As a result, we would like to share the Department of State (the agency determining the Visa Bulletin cutoff dates) expectations for movement of visa numbers over the next few months and specifically, for August and September 2013. Please note that these are short-term predictions and […]